Priestley Has Back Surgery

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August 15, 2002

INDIANAPOLIS -- Three days after his race car smashed into a wall at Kentucky Speedway, actor Jason Priestley, 32, had surgery Wednesday on his broken back and feet. Doctors at Methodist Hospital, where the former Beverly Hills 90210 television star was taken by helicopter on Monday, performed the operation. No update of Priestley's condition was expected until this morning, hospital spokesman John Mills said.